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b. P. nigromaculata bowmani Ridgw. 



Lower Amazons : Diamantica, near Santarem (Itiker) ; Borba, on the east 

 bank of the lower Rio Madeira (Natterer, Hoffmanns). 



c. P, nigromaculata paracusis Hellm. 



N.E. Brazil : District of Para (Natterer, Robert, Wallace, Snethlage). 

 Cf. also Oraith. Monatsber. xii. 1904. pp. 53-5. 



113. Phlegopsis erythropterus (Gould). 



Formicarius erythropterus Gould, Ami. Mag. Nat. Hi*!. (2) xv. p. 345, dosor. <$ vix ad. (May 1855. 



— " Interior of Demerara " — locality most probably erroneous !). 

 Formicarius triviltatus Sclater, P. Z. S. 1857. p. 4G, descr. J (" in ripis rl. Amazonum "). Cf. 



Hellmayr, Verhandl. xool.botan. Gesellsch. Wien, 1903, p. 215. 



No. 1159. <$ ad., Humaytha, 25. viii. 00. "Iris brown, feet and bill black, 

 bare space round the eye red." — Wing 95 ; tail 67 ; tars. 32 mm. ; bill damaged. 



This is apparently the first perfectly adult male. Both specimens in the 

 British Museum, the type of P. erythropterus and that from Sarayacu, East Ecuador, 

 are immature, having the upper tail-coverts black banded with chestnut-rufous, 

 while they are uniform deep black in the Hnmaytha bird. Otherwise the three 

 skins are identical. 



As I have pointed out I.e., P. erythroptera and P. tritittata are merely male 

 and female of a single species. This is proved by a young male (in transitional 

 plumage) from the Rio Icanna, where it was shot by the late Dr. Natterer, 

 July 11, 1831, together with an adult female, which is indistinguishable from 

 the type of F. tricittatus. I am greatly indebted to my friend Dr. Lorenz, of 

 Vienna, for the loan of these valuable specimens. 



114. Phlegopsis borbae Hellm. 

 Phhgopsis borbae Hellmayr, Bull. Brit. Om. CI. xix. (Feb. 1907) p. 53 (Borba). 



No. 1421. S imm., Borba, 29. xi. 06. "Iris yellowish brown, feet and bill 

 black ; wide naked space round the eye light greyish yellow." — Wing 89 ; tail 59 ; 

 tars. 30 ; bill 22 mm.— Type of species. 



Top of the head, nape, sides of the neck, cheeks, and ear-coverts chestnut- 

 rufous ; feathers on the forehead, especially the lateral ones, somewhat elongated 

 and erect ; lores white, forming a conspicuous patch in front of the eye ; eyelid 

 with black feathers on both the upper and under margin, those on the former 

 rather lengthened and somewhat stiff ; along the upper border of the naked 

 eye-ring a narrow, but very distinct black superciliary line. Back russet, rather 

 more olive-brown on the rump and upper tail-coverts ; feathers of the upper 

 back with slight blackish apical edges. Wing-coverts bright " burnt-umber " 

 (Ridgw. iii. 8), the innermost of the greater series with a narrow blackish apical 

 margin ; quills " burnt-umber," dusky ou the inner web. Tail black. Throat, 

 foreneck and chest ferruginous, rather duller on the latter ; in the middle of the 

 foreneck a few obsolete olive-blackish dots ; the ferruginous colour is bordered 

 below by au irregular blackish transverse band across the breast; rest of under- 

 pays olive-brown with a faint rnfescent tiuge ; middle of the breast somewhat 

 mottled with greyish. Inner webs of the remiges distinctly edged with pinkish 

 cinnamon. 



